Weed ident..

Beekissed

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Weed ID request!!! This single weed has been 99.9% of weed problem in my garden for the past 4 yrs. Thought to have been introduced here through some mulch hay. Haven't a clue as to what it is but it's the most proliferate weed I've ever had, with tiny seedlings coming up in the thousands at all times, like a fine carpet on the garden.

I've swept the garden clear of it several times this year already but the chips must be chalk full of seeds, as it just keeps comin'.

This is what it looks like every week of the year here since early spring...most of everything you see in the large space in the middle of this pic is this particular weed. Even that "row" you see of green...that's not a row of anything I planted.

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It's all along the fences....inside and out....

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And it grows faster than anything I've ever seen....

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Weed ID request!!! This single weed has been 99.9% of weed problem in my garden for the past 4 yrs. Thought to have been introduced here through some mulch hay. Haven't a clue as to what it is but it's the most proliferate weed I've ever had, with tiny seedlings coming up in the thousands at all times, like a fine carpet on the garden.

I've swept the garden clear of it several times this year already but the chips must be chalk full of seeds, as it just keeps comin'.

This is what it looks like every week of the year here since early spring...most of everything you see in the large space in the middle of this pic is this particular weed. Even that "row" you see of green...that's not a row of anything I planted.

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It's all along the fences....inside and out....

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And it grows faster than anything I've ever seen....

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Argh :barnie I have it too! At least it pulls up easily. Do not know what it is. It is bad at the big garden and has been brought home to my flower beds too. :he
 

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@Beekissed I got on line and tried to identify it, It might be Quickweed.

That certainly sounds appropriate! Never saw a weed to regrow so quickly or to seed so widely and completely...like a carpet of green. If I had tried to plant a cover crop I couldn't have done it so well as this stuff has done it.
 

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